Social Behaviour (eBook, PDF)

Genes, Ecology and Evolution
Redaktion: Szekely, Tamas

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Produktbeschreibung

Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of behaviour - where it has come from and how it has evolved, or the function of the behaviour studied. With guest articles from leaders in the field, theoretical foundations along with recent advances are presented to give a truly multidisciplinary overview of social behaviour, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include aggression, communication, group living, sexual behaviour and co-operative breeding. With examples ranging from bacteria to social mammals and humans, a variety of research tools are used, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, neuro-endocrine studies, cost-benefit and phylogenetic analyses and evolutionary game theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107109575
• Artikelnr.: 39262181

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Tamás Székely, Allen J. Moore and Jan Komdeur; Part I.
Foundations: 1. Nature-nurture interactions Marla B. Sokolowski and Joel D.
Levine; 2. The quantitative genetics of social behaviour Bronwyn H.
Bleakley, Jason B. Wolf and Allen J. Moore; 3. Social behaviour and
bird-song from a neural and endocrine perspective Elizabeth Adkins-Regan,
Timothy J. DeVoogd and Jordan M. Moore; 4. Evolutionary game theory John M.
McNamara and Franz J. Weissing; 5. Recent advances in comparative methods
Robert P. Freckleton and Mark Pagel; 6. Social evolution theory: a review
of methods and approaches Tom Wenseleers, Andy Gardner and Kevin R. Foster;
Part II. Themes: 7. Aggression: towards an integration of gene, brain and
behaviour Robert Huber and Edward A. Kravitz; 8. Social influences on
communication signals: from honesty to exploitation Mark E. Hauber and
Marlene Zuk; 9. Important topics in group living Jens Krause and Graeme
Ruxton; 10. Sexual behaviour: conflict, cooperation and co-evolution
Tomasso Pizzari and Russell Bonduriansky; 11. Pair bonds and parental
behaviour Lisa McGraw, Tamás Székely and Larry J. Young; 12. Adaptations
and constraints in the evolution of delayed dispersal: implications for
cooperation Jan Komdeur and Jan Ekman; 13. Social behaviour in
microorganisms Kevin R. Foster; 14. Social environments, social tactics and
their fitness consequences in complex mammalian societies Marion L. East
and Heribert Hofer; 15. Social behaviour in humans Ruth Mace; Part III.
Implications: 16. Personality and individual social specialisation Denis
Réale and Niels J. Dingemanse; 17. Molecular and genetic influences on the
neural substrate of social cognition in humans Louise Gallagher and David
Skuse; 18. Population density, social behaviour and sex allocation Suzanne
H. Alonzo and Ben C. Sheldon; 19. Social behaviour and speciation Gerald S.
Wilkinson and Leanna M. Birge; 20. Social behaviour in conservation Daniel
T. Blumstein; 21. Prospects for research in social behaviour: systems
biology meets behaviour Allen J. Moore, Tamás Székely and Jan Komdeur; Part
IV. Profiles: 22. Undiminished passion Tim Birkhead; 23. Social evolution,
sexual intrigue and serendipity Andrew Cockburn; 24. Mating systems:
integrating sexual conflict and ecology Nicholas B. Davies; 25. In love
with Ropalidia marginata - for 34 years, and still going strong Raghavendra
Gadagkar; 26. The Huddler's Dilemma: a cold shoulder or a warm inner glow
David Haig; 27. Multi-component signals in ant communication Bert
Hölldobler; 28. What's wrong with this picture? Sarah B. Hrdy; 29. From
behavioural observations, to genes, to evolution Laurent Keller; 30.
Reputation can make the world go round - or why we are sometimes social
Manfred Milinski; 31. A haphazard career Ronald Noë; 32. In celebration of
questions, past, present and future Geoff A. Parker; 33. Mating systems and
genetic variation Marion Petrie; 34. Selections from a life in social
selection David C. Queller; 35. The de novo evolution of cooperation: an
unlikely event Paul B. Rainey; 36. Evolutionary genetics and social
behaviour Mike Ritchie; 37. Genes and social behaviour: from gene to genome
to 1000 animal genomes Gene E. Robinson; 38. Behavioural ecology, why do I
love thee? Let me count the ways Paul W. Sherman; 39. Anonymous (and other)
social experience and the evolution of cooperation by reciprocity Michael
Taborsky; 40. Social theory based on natural selection Robert Trivers; 41.
Look to the ants Edward O. Wilson; 42. The handicap principle and social
behaviour Amotz Zahavi .